United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
vvEPA
State Incentives for Achieving Clean and Renewable Energy
Development on Contaminated Lands
The development of clean and renewable energy on formerly used land offers many economic and environmental benefits. Combining clean and
projects. This document provides information about incentives in your state that can be leveraged for clean and renewable energy and development of contaminated land.
Incentives for Clean and Renewable Energy
Funding (grants, loans, bonds, etc.)
Renewable Energy Project Bond Program
www3.state.id.us/cgi-bin/newidst?sctid=670890025.K
Allows independent (non-utility) developers of renewable energy projects in
the state to request financing from the Idaho Energy Resources for the
construction of electric generation and transmission projects by electric
utilities.
Tax Incentives (abatements, deductions, credits, etc.)
Renewable Energy Equipment Sales Tax Refund
www3.state.id.us/cgi-bin/newidst?sctid=630360022QQ.K
Provides 100% sales-and-use tax rebate for qualifying equipment and
machinery used to generate at least 25 kW of electricity from fuel cells,
low-impact hydro, wind, geothermal resources, biomass, cogeneration,
solar, and landfill gas.
Property Tax Exemption for Wind and Geothermal Producers
http://tax.idaho.gov/propertytax/PTpdfe/08post_legislative_session.pdf
Exempts qualifying commercial wind and geothermal operators from
paying taxes on real estate, fixtures, or property related to their renewable
energy systems. In lieu of property taxes, however, wind or geothermal
energy producers must instead pay a tax of 3% of their gross energy
earnings.
Technical Assistance and Other Incentives
Solar Easements
www3.state.id.us/cgi-bin/newidst?sctid=550060015.K
Allows communities to pass solar easement ordinances to allow for the
access rights to sunlight for a solar energy device.
Idaho Solar Program
www.energy.idaho.gov/
Offers assistance to Idaho citizens and companies interested in taking
advantage of solar technologies for space heating, water heating, power
generation, and more. Conducts training for the design and safe installation
techniques of solar power systems.
Net Metering
www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/incentive2.cfm?lncentive_Code=ID01R&
state=ID&CurrentPagelD= 1&RE= 1&EE= 1
Provides net metering for installed clean energy generation on a utility-by-
utility basis. Each utility: (1) offers net metering to customers who generate
electricity using solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, or fuel cells; (2) limits
net metering to 0.1 %of its retail peak generation; (3) limits residential
systems to 25 kW; and (4) restricts any single customer from generating
more than 20% of such peak production.
Quick Facts
Public Benefit Fund (PBF)
Renewable Portfolio Standard
Net Metering
Interconnection Standards
Yes D No 0
Yes D No 0
Yes 0 No D
Yes D No 0
Electric Power Industry Generation by
Primary Energy Source (EIA, 2006)
Petroleum - Other 0.5%
Natural Gas 9.6% Hydroelectric 84.0%
Coal 0.6% Other Renewables 5.2%
Points of Contact
Renewable Energy Project Bond Program
Ron Williams, ron@williamsbradbury.com, (208) 344-6633
Renewable Energy Equipment Sales Tax Refund, Property Tax
Exemption for Wind and Geothermal Producers
Dan John, taxrep@tax.state.id.us, (208) 334-7500
Solar Easements, Idaho Solar Program
K.T. Hanna, k.t.hanna@oer.idaho.gov, (208) 287-4898
Idaho Office of Energy Resources, www.energy.idaho.gov/
Net Metering, 1-800-334-SAVE, energyspecialist@oer.idaho.gov
Information current as of November 2008; please refer to www.dsireusa.org and the state Web sites
provided, or contact the points of contact identified above for more up to date information.
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Incentives for Development of Contaminated Land
Funding (grants, loans, bonds, etc.)
Community Reinvestment Pilot Initiative
www.deq.idaho.gov/waste/prog_issues/haz_waste/community_reinvestme
nt_pilot1 .cfm
Provides a rebate up to $150,000 to private and nonprofit entities
completing DEQ-approved cleanups at up to 10 properties selected as
Pilot Brownfields. Upon cleanup completion, the state issues the
participant a Community Reinvestment Rebate equal to 70% of cleanup
costs incurred conducting activities identified in the Remediation Work
Plan.
Idaho Petroleum Storage Tank Fund
www.idahopstf.org/ust.htm
Provides covered underground storage tank site owners or operators (only
petroleum distributors and retailers who distribute and sell fuel) with
environmental insurance of up to $1,000,000 per occurrence, for $25 per
tank per year, for a maximum of 100 tanks. Provides non-marketer (i.e.,
any company using fuel but not selling or distributing) owners or operators
of above ground and underground storage tanks who consume 10,000
gallons or less of petroleum products each month, no more than $500,000
per occurrence.
Tax Incentives (abatements, credits, deductions, etc.)
Partial Property Tax Exemption for Remediated Land
www.deq.idaho.gov/Applications/BrownHelds/download/title63.pdf
Provides an exemption from property tax of up to 50% of the remediated
land value for up to seven years for properties that complete the
requirements of the Idaho Voluntary Cleanup Program. Remediated land
value represents the difference in land value for the property between the
remediated and un-remediated conditions.
Limitations on Liability
Idaho Voluntary Cleanup Program Limitation on Liability
www.epa.gov/brownfields/pubs/bf_states_r10.pdf
www.deq.idaho.gov/Applications/Brownfields/index.cfm?site=voluntaryclea
nup.htm
Provides certificate of completion (COC) and covenant not to sue (CNTS)
under Idaho's Voluntary Cleanup Program. After receiving a COC, a party
can negotiate a CNTS for any claim for environmental remediation under
state law resulting from or based upon the release or threatened release of
a hazardous substance or petroleum that is the subject of the approved
voluntary remediation work plan. The CNTS extends to any current or
future owner or operator of the site or portion thereof who did not cause,
aggravate, or contribute to the release or threatened release.
Quick Facts
Limitations on Liability Yes 0 No D
Number of State-Tracked Contaminated Properties: 6,145
Includes AST, Brownfield, ER, General Remediation, LUST, Mining, RCRA, Solid
Waste, UST and VCP sites
Number of EPA CERCLIS Sites: 91
Sites identified for potential investigation under the federal Superfund Program
Number of EPA Brownfields Properties: 110
Properties being funded or addressed under the EPA Brownfields Program
There may be some overlap among the categories listed and sites listed may not
represent all potentially contaminated sites in Idaho.
Points of Contact
Community Reinvestment Pilot Initiative
Aaron Scheff, aaron.scheff@deq.idaho.gov, (208) 373-0420
Idaho Petroleum Storage Tank Fund
Steve Halladay, pstf@idahosif.org, (208) 332-8100
Partial Property Tax Exemption for Remediated Land, Idaho
Voluntary Cleanup Program Limitation on Liability
Bruce Wicherski, bruce.wicherski@deq.idaho.gov, (208) 373-0246
Information current as of November 2008; please refer to
www.epa.gov/brownfields/pubs/st_res_prog_report.htm and the state Web sites provided,
or contact the points of contact identified above for more up to date information.
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